I just installed the DX sdk (August 2007 - build 9.20.1057)...
and I recompiled Irrlicht v1.4.2 with it...
all went fine (except of some warnings from the dx files about "operator new must not return NULL" at two places)...
also the Irrlicht demos are running fine, except of the shader example !!!
when I run the shader example without HL shaders I get this:

but when I run it with HL shaders I get this:

as you can see in the console, "ps_1_x" is no longer supported (what ever that means)...
